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...the movies with Clark Gable and Betty Grable, view the "cafe society" of New York, and listen to radio stars like Jack Benny and Walter Winchell, the acerbic columnist and powerful radio gossip.The major players are all here: President Franklin...
...sick you could see the doctor that same day or if you were really sick, he would come to you. We had comedians like Jack Benny and Red Skelton who didn't have to be dirty to be funny.Think about today. Everything I mentioned above has changed...
...violate the Eighth Amendment prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment. He launched into a muddled riff on an old Jack Benny comedy routine that became so protracted and distracting that Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., amused at first...
Favorite comedian: Jack Benny Favorite TV show: The Jackie Gleason Show Favorite movie: The Dresser Favorite musical artist: Cat Stevens Favorite book: The Fountainhead What do you do in your spare time? Golf
...gathering around the radio to enjoy Jack Benny, "The Shadow," "Dragnet" and...to 1955. Programs such as "The Jack Benny Show" and "Fibber McGee & Molly...featuring such stars as Gracie Allen, Jack Benny and Bob Hope are marketed alongside...
...for pneumonia, said his manager, Claire Evans. Adler played with the greats -- George Gershwin, Paul Whiteman, Jack Benny, Django Reinhardt and, late in life, with Sting. Ralph Vaughan Williams, Malcolm Arnold, Darius Milhaud and Joaquin...
...this more evident than in Hope's movie stardom, a field where other top radio and TV comics, including the great Jack Benny, fell short. Hope realized soon after entering movies in the late thirties that telling jokes wasn't enough. He...
...President Ronald Reagan and a chimpanzee. De Cordova also was the producer or director for "Burns and Allen," "The Jack Benny Show," "My Three Sons," and numerous specials for Bing Crosby, Claudette Colbert, Noel Coward, Lauren Bacall...
...Wadena restaurant owner who owns the management company now operating the Pine Edge Inn. Other famed guests included Jack Benny and noted pianist Van Cliburn. Restoration efforts are aimed at returning the inn to decor from its original era. For...
...Luke, was in a high-volume eating stage. Two, don't stay at extravagant hotels or resorts. I am cheaper than Jack Benny, and it pains me to spend in triple digits for a place to sleep. Clean, affordable and handy are the three catchwords...